Back In Bulgaria

SOFIA, Bulgaria- I’m back. Not much to report. The planes left when they were supposed to and arrived in the same fashion. I’m now looking at a couple more weeks in Bulgaria.

I need to engage this place a little more before going. I have a filming segment set up with a street violinist, but I need to add on a couple more segments as well.

But at the same time I still have an entire month of articles to write. I’ve done it again. While I finished one article for a Harvard journal I didn’t produce any articles towards my quota in the first part of a month, which has again left me scampering around at the end of the month — when the stories are due. I’m probably going to end up stuck in a room for the last week … like usual.

Although I’m happy to be back. I’m happy to be riding on the subway back to my wife and kids. I’m happy because I’m going to get off at the Cultural Palace, grab a bottle of beer, and drink it on the walk home.

Wade Shepard is the founder and editor of Vagabond Journey. He has been traveling the world since 1999, through 89 countries. He is the author of the book, Ghost Cities of China, and contributes to The Guardian, Forbes, Bloomberg, The Diplomat, the South China Morning Post, and other publications. Wade Shepard has written 3465 posts on Vagabond Journey. Contact the author.

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I’m an itinerant writer who has been traveling the world since 1999, through 89 countries. I wrote Ghost Cities of China, a book which chronicles the two years that I spent in China’s new cities, and have another book about the New Silk Road coming out soon. I’m a regular contributor to Forbes, The Guardian, and the South China Morning Post, and I have been featured on BBC World, VICE, NPR Morning Edition, CNBC Squawk Box, CBC The Current … This is my personal blog where I share stories from the road that don’t fit in anywhere else. In other words, this is my daily diary, raw and real — it is not edited or even proofread. Subscribe below.